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- TheEngineer - 11-22-2007
Just popped the bird in the oven for dinner tonight! Good eating, Good drinks, Good friends and family and a great time to all!
- Innkeeper - 11-22-2007
The same from us. We have one daughter and friend are coming here. We are simplifying things this year; turkey, cornbread chestnut stuffing (separate), peas, and sliced Brandywine tomatoes. Pumpkin pie for dessert.
Found an "orphan" '01 Easton Fiddletown Zin in the rack and will chance it. Have some other stuff in reserve just in case.
- hotwine - 11-22-2007
The two turkey breasts are about done, sweet potatoes are ready, crescent rolls (legendary in the family), fresh cranberries, dunno what else is in there, with pots flying in all directions. Daughter and her hubbie are here. Planning on an '02 Messina Hof Reserve Cab to start (their gift last year).... wanting to try it, and recalling the WSJ wine writers' recent advice to try cab with turkey. Have Sancerres as back-up, or may run to the cellar for another cab if the first goes well. Pumpkin pie for dessert.
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
- Bucko - 11-22-2007
May this be your best holiday ever.
Please take a moment to think of our troops who are a long way from home. It is a lonely feeling.
- hotwine - 11-22-2007
Yeah, no kidding, been doing that all day. People are trying to kill you, and you're saying "thanks" anyway. God bless 'em!
- TheEngineer - 11-22-2007
Aye Bucko. I agree. Being from Canada, this country has also spilled it's blood in the battlefields of Afghanistan. Taking over from the US positions which meant the toughest parts of Afghanistan, Canadian troops have held majority of the attacking rolls and as such, it has the most fallen soldiers in the war on terror after the US, more than Britain. Unfortunately it is blood on the field that buys credibility between countries' military forces.
One of the items that has come up though is that, there is a stretch of highway between Trenton CFB where the dead solders are flown and Toronto where the bodies are driven to and the public has found out. Each time a dead soldier srrives, masses of people, fire deparments, police forces, veterans line the highway's bridge to salute the fallen soldier, to pay tribute to their sacrifice. In fact, this has happened so often (and the crowds come each time), that the stretch of highway has been renamed the Highway of Heroes.
We can't give enough to our troops, from any country on the front line.
I raise a glass to them all for their honourable service and a prayer that they all come home safely.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sep0707-highwayofheroes.jpg
From Wikipedia.
Highway of Heroes
On August 24, 2007, the Ministry of Transportation (Ontario) announced that the stretch of Highway 401 from Trenton, Ontario to Don Valley Parkway/Highway 404 in Toronto will bear the name "Highway of Heroes" in honour of Canada's fallen soldiers, notably those who have died on duty in Afghanistan. This stretch of the freeway is often travelled by a convoy of vehicles carrying a fallen soldier's body with his or her family from CFB Trenton to the coroner's office in Toronto. Since 2002, when the first of Canada's fallen soldiers were returned from Afghanistan, crowds from all over the communities along this stretch of the 401 lined the overpasses to pay their respects as the convoy passes. The highway's designation as the "Macdonald-Cartier Freeway" will remain throughout the freeway's length. [8] [9] From the Don Valley Parkway to Trenton, large signs and several smaller reassurance markers with the new designation have been added to this stretch of the 401. Similar to the older and discontinued M-C Freeway shields installed in the 1960s, the King's Highway shields along with two shields with a poppy symbol (one with 401 designation and two with poppies with text Highway of Heroes and Autoroute des héros) appear after each on ramp along the route. At least three of these signs were reported stolen as of October 12th, 2007, one near Port Hope, and two others near Trenton. [10]